Stepping Through the Program

Introduction

When a breakpoint is reached
or your program is suspended,
the Debug tool window becomes active and enables you to get control over the
program's execution. For this purpose, you can use the Run menu commands, or the icons on
the stepping toolbar of in the Debug tool
window.

Each stepping action advances the execution point
to the next execution location, depending on the action you choose.

Stepping through the program

Tips and tricks

The Force Step Into command enables you to step into
a method of a class not to be stepped into .
The classes, stepping into which is suppressed, are specified on the Stepping
page of the Settings/Preferences dialog box.

The Force Step Over command enables you to jump over
the method call ignoring the breakpoints on the way.

The Force Run to Cursor command enables you to jump
to the cursor position ignoring existing breakpoints on the way.